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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jan-2019 04:35:27 UTC Strypey

   #Spectrum.chat has been acquired by MS via GH:
   https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/spectrum-is-joining-github~1d3eb8ee-4c99-46c0-8daf-ca35a96be6ce

   "Spectrum will stay open source, and we’ll continue collaborating with the open source community to serve you the best way we can."

   I hope so, but given that GH keeps a bunch of their secret sauce proprietary, I'm not going to hold my breath. One less #SlackaLike to recommend ;)

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   • Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jan-2019 04:45:55 UTC Strypey

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     Weird that GH sold #Gitter, a mature codebase they'd kept proprietary, and which already had a significant user base, and then bought a much newer, #FreeCode chat platform like Spectrum, which is only just out of beta. What can we read between the lines here about the MS for GH going forward?

     Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.